Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Boston Latin School
| 1669 | Cotton Mather, Minister |
| 1714 | Benjamin Franklin, Inventor; Signer, Declaration of Independence; Minister to France (non-graduate) |
| 1729 | Samuel Adams, Signer, Declaration of Independence; Governor of Massachusetts |
| 1745 | John Hancock, Signer, Declaration of Independence; President, Continental Congress |
| 1770 | Charles Bulfinch, Architect, Boston State House, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. |
| 1805 | Edward Everett, President, Harvard University; Governor of Massachusetts |
| 1817 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher and Poet |
| 1822 | Francis Gardner, Author; Headmaster, Latin School |
| 1827 | Wendell Phillips, Orator and Anti-Slavery Leader |
| 1835 | Edward Everett Hale, Minister of South Congregational Church |
| 1849 | Charles William Eliot, Educator; President of Harvard University |
| 1851 | Phillips Brooks, Orator, Episcopal Bishop of Boston |
| 1851 | Henry Lee Higginson, Banker, "Boston's First Citizen" |
| 1857 | Edward Charles Pickering, Astronomer |
| 1880 | John F. Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston |
| 1882 | George Santayana, Philosopher |
| 1907 | Howard Lindsey, Famous Playwright |
| 1908 | Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to England; Father of President John F. Kennedy |
| 1917 | Roy E. Larsen, Publisher/Benefactor |
| 1918 | Paul A. Dever, Governor of Massachusetts |
| 1922 | Elliot Norton, Drama Critic |
| 1926 | Ralph B. Rodgers, Former Chairman of the Board, Texas Instruments |
| 1927 | Cardinal John Wright, Prefect of Clergy of the Roman Curia (highest curial office held by an American up to that time) |
| 1928 | Dr. Paul Zoll, Cardiologist who introduced the pacemaker |
| 1931 | Vincent Learson, Former Chairman of the Board, Internal Business Machine Co. |
| 1932 | Theodore H. White, Writer and Author |
| 1935 | Leonard Bernstein, Composer, Conductor, Musician |
| 1937 | Wade McGee, Jr., Prominent Jurist |
| 1937 | Brig. General Robert McDermott, Dean of Air Force Academy; Chairman Emeritus, USAA Ins. |
| 1939 | Raymond D. Nasher, Patron of the Arts |
| 1940 | Sumner M. Redstone, Entertainment Industry Exec. |
| 1942 | Thomas L. Phillips, Chairman of the Board Emeritus, Raytheon Corp. |
| 1943 | Rev. John E. Brooks, President, College of the Holy Cross |
| 1943 | Aaron Fuerstein, President, Malden Mills Industries |
| 1943 | Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., Deputy Secretary of State; President of Michigan State University; Chairman & CEO of TIAA-Cref |
| 1955 | Marshall S. Cogan, Chairman, Knoll International Holdings, Inc. |
| 1957 | Most Reverend William Murphy, Vicar General and Moderator Curia, Archdiocese of Boston |
| 1959 | Thomas Ryan, Jr., President, American Stock Exchange |
| 1960 | Charles I. Clough, Jr., Chief Investment Strategist, Merrill Lynch |
| 1967 | Thomas Finneran, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives |
| 1975 | Stephen Murphy, Boston City Council |
See also the school's alumni web page and Boston Latin School Association.
